Jim Schaffer

Jim Schaffer helps management teams, salespeople and service staff develop a laser-like focus on producing results and maintain high morale---regardless of what is going on around them.

Jim is a change management consultant, sales trainer and professional speaker who brings more than 25 years of sales and management experience to his clients in a career which has included stints with numerous start-ups as well as Fortune 1000 companies.

He began his career in the seventies as the first Boston-based employee of Computer Associates. After a quick rise to the top of the national sales force, he ran the Midwest division during the time the company went public and grew to $100 million in sales.

Since then, Jim has managed teams for a number of companies in the software, trade publishing and internet media industries. Most recently he was Vice President of Sales for Clear Blue Media, an internet advertising network of more than 6,000 sites.

In 1990, Jim began offering his popular "Conscious Selling" seminars in public venues throughout New England as well as for private clients. In his management career and through his seminars, he has hired, trained, coached and managed thousands of people in dozens of industries. His combination of real-world field experience with “cutting edge ideas from 2500 years ago” offers his audiences real tools for transforming the rest of their careers.

Jim is a member of the National Speakers Association, and has been featured at the New England Whole Health Expo and the Second Annual Symposium for Spirituality in Business.

A longtime student of Eastern philosophy, Jim holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He lives with his wife and daughters in the Boston area.